Osama bin Laden

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The decade-long search for Osama bin Laden, the leader of a terrorist network that launched repeated attacks in the West -- most spectacularly in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, ended in May 2011 when a U.S. special forces team killed him at a compound inside Pakistan. Full coverage | 9/11 photos

The decade-long search for Osama bin Laden, the leader of a terrorist network that launched repeated attacks in the West -- most spectacularly in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, ended in May 2011 when a U.S. special forces team killed him at a compound inside Pakistan. Full coverage | 9/11 photos